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Palace Want Ash - Silly Season Gets Sillier
at 22:36:15

Palace fan (obviously) in peace here, just wanting to correct you on your assumption.

We would NOT be interested in Williams because he might sell a few more season tickets! For a start, given our relatively small ground, we sell out of them anyway - we did in our first year, we did last year, we will this year. Secondly with been linked to a lot bigger and better "season ticket selling" players than Williams, such as Remy and Cabaye. The majority of Palace fans aren't deluded enough to think we have a good chance of getting them (we're no Cardiff after all...). No offence to Williams, he is a class defender but defenders don't sell tickets like strikers or creative midfielders do. If it were an issue keeping Bolasie would sell more tickets than buying any defender.

Why would we make a move for him? We probably wouldn't, he's the wrong side of 30 to be spending what you'd probably want for him, if you were accept bids at all. But why we would want him is obvious, he's a good solid CB and we could do with one. Personally I'd want rather someone cheaper and younger.

Why are Palace being linked to him? The same reason we're linked to pretty much ever Welsh international (aside from Bale, which really would be ridiculous) - we have two welsh internationals already (3 if you count Joniesta) and previously we had Pulis and now we have Pardew who briefly played with Coleman.

I agree it would be a backwards step for Williams to go from Swansea to Palace, assuming he continues to get regular first team football. However I'd wager that for a welsh international; playing first team football for the only welsh side established in the Premier League as oppose to playing first team football for a Croydon establishing PL team is a bigger reason than playing for the team that came 8th over the team that game 10th.

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